title: Communication with chaotic lasers
abstract: Recent experiments with chaotic electronic circuits have shown the possibility of communication with chaos. The experimental demonstration of chaotic communication with an optical system is described. An erbium-doped fiber ring laser (EDFRL) was used to produce chaotic light with a wavelength of 1.53 micrometers. A small 10-megahertz message was embedded in the larger chaotic carrier and transmitted to a receiver system where the message was recovered from the chaos. Chaotic optical waveforms can thus be used to communicate masked information at high bandwidths.
authors.affiliation: School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: VanWiggeren
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Roy